Hello Jupiter (7 nov 08)

Mummy brought guo guo to the Science Centre today cos the membership card is expiring soon. At the same time, she wants to bring guo guo to the stargazing at the Observatory next to the Omni Theatre. It is a free session on every Friday night from 7.50pm to 10pm. Although it is free, they have to get a complimentary ticket from the customer service near to Omni Theatre first. There is already a long queue up the stair when they reached. Lucky I did not join them as they queued for more than an hour.


The Observatory is very well organised. There are volunteers from school ensuring the queue is inorder. There is another staff stationed near to the telescope, explaining to you on what u can see on that night and another staff at the telescope station.


Guo guo saw a close up view of planet Jupiter. It is bright in color with an orangish ring around it and a size of a ten cent coin. Wow that is big comparing to what u see with your naked eye.

http://www.science.edu.sg/ssc/otmovie.jsp?type=8&root=0&parent=0&cat=82

Quoted the following from the Science centre webpage :

The Science Centre Observatory is situated at the following geographical coordinates:1o 20' 03" N latitude103o 44' 14" E longitude15.27 m Height (m.s.l)It is one of the few observatories in the world located next to the Equator. Its unique position allows constellations in both the northern and southern celestial hemispheres to be observed and thus opens up more vistas in the sky for observers. The Observatory is endowed with a range of sophisticated facilities as well as a classroom for astronomy lessons, slide shows and public talks.The main telescope of the Observatory is a 40-cm Cassegrain reflector of combined focal length 520-cm. The sub-telescope is a 15-cm apochromatic